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(No Model.) I Y L. B. PRAHAR.

SAFETY INKSTAND. V 7. No 376,964. Patented Jan. 24, 1888.

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, i which the grain of the metal runs transversely.

' .UNI'TED STATEsPATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YoRK. I

SAFETY-IN'KSTAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,964, dated January- 24, 1,888.

Applicatitfi tiled October 17, 1887.

To all whom it may core/earn.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs B. PRAHAR, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Inkstand, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relatesto that class of inkstands described and-shown in an application for patent filed by me September 30, 1887, Serial No. 251,126; and it consists in an improved manner of carrying out the invention therein set forth, whereby an improved construction and arrangement of the metal frame and spring-arms are obtained, as will be hereinafter more specifically described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this'specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figu'res.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of an inkstand provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank for the plate and spring-arms, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the blank after bending to shape for application to the stand.

The inner casing, A, which holds the bottle, is formed with a flange, a, to'which the outer casing, C, is secured. Through the flange a are formed suitable openings for the ends of the; arms carrying the covers and forming springstherefor, which arms, as in my hereinbefore-referred-to application, are formed in tegral with a plate embracing the inner casing; but in the form of plate and integral arms shown and described in said application the spring-arms are liable to breakage at the bend or point of connection with the main plate of l the frame, especially such of said arms in,

and it is to overcome this objection that I have devised the form of plate and arms now to be described.

The arms (1 d d d, which correspond with the similar arms of my previous application, and which may be varied inform and fnnc tion as therein set forth; are in, this case. formedas integral'parts' of a main plate, 0, which is in the form of a strip, from the edge of which said arms project at right anglesand in the same plane, as shown in Fig. 2.

Serial No. 252,574. (No model.)

The blank D for the frame, consisting of the main plate and spring-arms, is out from a sheet of spring metal, preferably so that the grain of the metal will run as indicatedbythe arron in Fig; 2.that is, lengthwise of the armswhereby, when the blank is bent to the shape shown in Fig. 3, with the variousarms properly shaped as required to act as carriers for the hinges of the covers and as springsand catches for the same, there will be, in ..use, no liability of break-age of the arms from the plate.

All. of the arms or opposing ones are formed ment in the operation of the various parts of the stand.

The plate'c maybe'made in two pieces, if preferred, without departing from the spirit of my invention.-

Having thus described my inven tion,"what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,'is V 1. In a safety-inksta nd, tliecombination, with the outer and inner casings, and their c overs, of a circularly-bent spring-plate between said casings, provided with arms extending from itsupper edge, substantiallyi as and for the purposes set forth.

satety-inkstand, of'the cireularly-bent sprin'g- 'plate 0, having arms extending from its edge, provided with shoulders e, substantially as de- LOUIS 13.; PRA-HARJH/ XVitnesses:

W. S WALKER, G. 'SEDGWIoK;

spring-platefc, provided with the arms d d d I h strained from outward or longitudinal mover t r 2. The combination, with the casings of a y 

